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We love to work with committed and innovative people. We especially appreciate the fabulous local food and drink producers who are making East Anglia a burgeoning destination for lovers of “real” products.

We have a huge respect for those dedicated and hard-working folks who grow, catch and make the things that are putting East Anglia on the real food map.

It’s important to us that we deliver images of the optimum quality in our productions. When we say you’ll get HD video, we need to make sure that’s exactly what you get. It’s a technical old business but it matters.

We’re often shooting in 4k (really high resolution) but normally delivering in 1080 (Blu-ray quality HD). So that means that we have the opportunity to safely crop to specific sections of our raw footage without the danger of any loss of HD resolution. However, in order to do so we need to know precisely where the limits of any 1080 region fall – which is almost impossible. Our editing software of choice, Final Cut won’t tell and neither will its best chum Motion.

We just took delivery of a new high capacity battery to test on Oedipus, our UAV. As with any new kit, it has to be tested to make sure that it does its job, and that it is safe and doesn’t screw anything else up.

This morning featured a quite spectacular hard frost but were we deterred? You bet we were, but curiosity got the better of us and armed with a mug of very temporarily hot coffee, we ventured out to fly.

After quite a few months of training, exams, practise and practical tests, we applied to the CAA for permission to carry out commercial work using our camera carrying hexacopter, Oedipus Hex. Ok, so perhaps multi-rotor flying machines like this are more commonly referred to as drones.

Hexacopter, drone, SUA, SUSA ,UAV. Whatever you call it, Jeremy achieved exceptionally high marks in the written exam and was signed off at the highest grade by the flight test examiner back at the beginning of April, when we were assured that our CAA permission “certificate” would be through in a matter of a couple of weeks or so.

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